Doctor Ratih's Death Exposes Painful Risks of Coronavirus Battle

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Ratih Purwarini, a doctor who passed away due to coronavirus disease, is pictured at Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park in Pasuruan, East Java province, Indonesia, August 28, 2011, in this handout photo obtained by Reuters on April 10, 2020. When Indonesian doctor Ratih Purwarini was buried at dusk in a Jakarta cemetery, only her son Firos saw her plastic-wrapped coffin used for coronavirus victims lowered into the grave. Courtesy of Bambang Purnomo Sidik's Family/Handout via REUTERS

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Firos Justin Sumantri, son of Ratih Purwarini, a doctor who passed away due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), prays as municipality workers wait, next to his mother's grave during the funeral in Jakarta, Indonesia March 31, 2020. The rest of the family, instructed to keep a safe distance, watched the proceedings from afar: Firos standing alone by a mound of fresh earth wailing the Islamic call to prayer through his mask. Picture taken March 31, 2020. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan

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Municipality workers bury the coffin of Ratih Purwarini, a doctor who passed away due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Jakarta, Indonesia March 31, 2020. Two weeks before the healthy 46-year-old mother of two was laughing at a family outing in Bandung, a West Javan city by strawberry fields and volcanoes. Now she is a number on a growing list, one of 26 Indonesian doctors killed by COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan/File Photo

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Portrait of Ratih Purwarini, a doctor who passed away due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), is displayed next to flowers at her parents' house in Jakarta, Indonesia April 8, 2020. Picture taken April 8, 2020. The deaths of 26 doctors, and nine nurses, battling the pandemic in Indonesia, a sprawling developing nation of 260 million people, has fanned anxiety about a healthcare system ill-prepared to tackle it. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan

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Nina Widyawati, 65-year-old mother of Ratih Purwarini, a doctor who passed away due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), shows a photograph of her daughter and grandchildren, at her house in Jakarta, Indonesia April 8, 2020. Picture taken April 8, 2020. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan

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Nina Widyawati, 65-year-old mother of Ratih Purwarini, a doctor who passed away due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), shows photographs of her daughter, as her husband Bambang Purnomo Sidik sits at their house in Jakarta, Indonesia April 8, 2020. Picture taken April 8, 2020. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan

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